Sentences with phrase «fell by a fraction»

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Because nominal wage growth for a large fraction of workers has been held to zero, a somewhat higher rate of inflation would grease the wheels of the labor market by allowing real wages to fall (Akerlof, Dickens, and Perry 1996).

Like other senators and House members, Gillibrand will likely get only a fraction of the money she sought by the time Congress finalizes its spending bills in the fall or later.

Between 1980 and 2000, «the fraction of citation - weighted publications produced by the top 20 % of departments falls from approximately 75 % to 60 % but over the same period rises for the top 20 % of individual scientists from 70 % to 80 %.»

Unlike winds on the inner rocky planets like Earth, which are powered primarily by sunlight, winds on the gas giants are also fed by heat escaping from their deep cores, although the strength of this interior heat is a mere fraction of the sunlight falling on Earth.

Thus they had only small differential effects on the occupational choices of talented women college graduates; the fraction of women entering the teaching profession from highly selective colleges fell by only 3.2 percentage points.

Children who do not know their math facts quickly fall behind when they are taught long division, simplifying fractions, factoring, and pre-algebra, and are unable to determine whether an answer achieved by using a calculator «looks right» or not.

CBR News spoke with Matt Fraction about his upcoming short story in «Dark Horse Presents» # 25, «The Time Ben Fell in Love,» a time travel love story featuring art by Christian Ward.

At 0.82 by 11.7 by 8.1 inches, it's the same size as the Lenovo Flex 11 Chromebook and a fraction smaller than the Dell Chromebook 3189 Education 2 - in - 1 (0.82 by 12 by 8.2 inches), and falls between them in weight, with a couple of ounces on each side, at 3.09 pounds.

By collecting a fraction of those annual costs each month, the escrow account reduces the risk that you'll fall behind on your obligations to the government or your insurance provider.

Tumbling down limestone cliffs, YS Falls is one of Jamaica's most beautiful sites yet visited by just a fraction of island visitors, especially compared to the crowds that mob Dunn's River Falls.

Take - Two Interactive is now hoping that Red Dead Redemption 2, which was delayed to spring 2018 from its initial release date of fall this year, will have even a fraction of the success enjoyed by Grand Theft Auto V.

By including paintings and collages from 1959 - 65, the heyday of Pop Art, and from 1988 - 89, when many were lamenting painting's fallen status, the exhibition suggests that Drexler has been painting all along, and that we know only a small fraction of her work.

But stocking your little one's closet with secondhand clothes is one of the easiest ways to save money — since the used items are sold for a fraction of the price; to save resources, since you aren't encouraging consumption by buying brand new; and to save yourself from worrying about every tackle, fall, and spill that could ruin that pricey (but too cute to resist sweater).

As you can see, we can't trust any individual data point to better than + / - 5 degs yet by taking the average of 100 data points the error drops by an order of magnitude to (The error falls as the square root of the number of data points) to give an accuracy of a fraction of a degree.

Using a simple physical model, O'Gorman suggests that this is due to the balance between two competing effects caused by the warming: increasing moisture available for humidity and the decreases in the fraction of precipitation that falls as snow.

Because this fraction was so small, the projected CO2 concentration of 412 ppmv that would otherwise obtain in the atmosphere by 2020 would fall to 411.987 ppmv.

Strathy J. noted, at para. 90, that Tridon had been effectively overruled on the basis that order and fairness are not accomplished «by turning away jurisdiction where a fraction of the relief claimed may fall outside rule 17.02 and where in other respects there is a «real and substantial connection» between the parties in the subject matter of the action in Ontario»; Strathy J. quoted Hockin J. in Overland Custom Couch Inc. v. Thor Industries Inc. (1999), 46 O.R. (3d) 788, at para. 19.